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WASHINGTON, March 29, 2018 – Target Corporation, located in Minneapolis, Minn. is recalling an undetermined amount of frozen ready-to-eat and not-ready-to-eat meat and poultry products due to temperature abuse during transport, which may have resulted in the growth of spoilage organisms or pathogens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced…

January 25, 2018: The clamp attaching the Lights & Lullabies Travel mobile to the crib rail can break causing the mobile to fall and posing an injury hazard to an infant in the crib. This recall involves VTech Lights & Lullabies Travel mobiles sold in blue and pink. The model numbers are 80-503000 for the blue…

Toys “R” Us has issued a recall on Clay Craft Kits due to risk of mold exposure which can pose a risk of respiratory or other infections, especially in individuals with a compromised immune system, damaged lungs or individuals with allergic reaction to mold. Consumers should immediately stop using this item and return it to…

U.S. PIRG Education Fund, a consumer advocacy group, found figet spinners sold at Target contained up to 300 times the lead levels allowed in children’s toys. Target claimed the figet spinners were not recommended for children, even though their website mistakenly displayed a recommended age of “6 years and up” in the product description listed under…

“Since October 2004, more than half of children who did not have lawyers were deported, while only one in 10 children who had lawyers were sent back.” Source: It’s Children Against Federal Lawyers in Immigration Court – The New York Times

“The International Company for Agricultural Production & Processing (ICAPP) is voluntarily recalling certain lots of its frozen strawberries out of an abundance of caution in response to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of an outbreak of Hepatitis A. The recalled products were all distributed for sale to and use in food service establishments…